No it doesn’t. It requires Democrats STANDING FOR THINGS instead of constantly knifing us in the back, thus attracting support from people who don’t vote because they are (rightly) cynical about politics.

We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/n)

Now, he just has to build the even bigger computer that will come after this one to determine the question.

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

This is EXACTLY how RFK Jr built his career: turning civil litigation against “chemicals” into a pseudoscience cash grab. What’s shocking is seeing people who claim to do scicomm sanitize this well-known tactic, ESPECIALLY as our federal health agencies have been hijacked by science deniers. 5/

He repackaged it for journal publication to give it the appearance of legitimacy. Even though the strongest studies— between siblings—showed no relationship between autism & Tylenol use in pregnancy. He cherry-picked studies & gave parental memory [recall] more weight than quantitative data. 2/

Weird some scicomm accounts gave the new “Tylenol in pregnancy & autism” review some weight. They don’t know the lead author, Baccarelli, had the exact claims thrown out of federal court for having ZERO scientific merit, when he was a paid “expert witness” in lawsuits against Tylenol makers. 1/

Yes but many of us are women and people of color so it didn't count

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

The secret follow up tweet is that neuroAI, or “neuroconnectionism”, is the right strategy. A pincer movement from brain and function to emergent algorithms and physiology.

The field of neuroscience makes a lot more sense if you see it as a generation-long battle between the “Marrian” program of focusing on function and hoping a brain falls out and the “Markramian” program of building a brain and hoping function falls out and tbh I think they’ve both failed.

Most of us: there’s no way we can get any stupider Narrator: they were incorrect

how much did google pay to slip an entire magazine of corporate propaganda into this weekend's @irishtimes.com newspaper disguised as public communication about AI

Excellent explainer on why private industry and venture capital can’t replace government funded basic science research.

Media sanewashing Trump's insanity and corruption, while amplifying every minor "umm" by Biden is how we got here.

This is going to cause so much harm.

Excited to highlight a new paper from my graduate student Sergio Bernal Garcia who, together withLuke Hammond, developed RESPAN, a new deep-learning pipeline automating the segmentation of neuronal morphology and dendritic spines from fluorescent microscopy images: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Ever wondered how Energy-Based Models (EBMs) work and how they differ from normal neural networks? ☕️ We go over EBMs and then dive into the Energy-Based Transformers paper to make LLMs that refine guesses, self-verify, and could adapt compute to problem difficulty.

Had a blast at the AXON2025 meeting, on the magnificent SS Rotterdam! 😊 And just found out my parents sailed across the Atlantic on that ship from the U.S. to Ireland in 1967! 😮

“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”

New podcast: how the American Christian Right has invoked morality to drive neoliberal policies that built today’s unequal and unstable society—and how they continue to do this with the culture wars open.spotify.com/episode/2ApA...

To me, this is theoretical (=scientific) *psychology* at its best. Thanks to these authors, we now know some new, fairly universal (abstract), undeniable (proved), and useful facts about *affordances*.

Some days it feels as if Netanyahu and Trump are competing who can destroy their country faster or while inflicting the most pain

“We’re grateful to RFK Jr.—otherwise we might put something unnatural into our bodies, like vaccines.”

Fantastic piece in Nature Reviews Neuro by @nicolecrust.bsky.social on the importance of science communication. My take? Everything matters - just do something. It will make a difference for how science is valued and trusted, how community understands. Let's get out there and communicate! 👏

“… the incoherence is the point. Fascism is a temper-tantrum disguised as an ideology”

You're looking at a Morelet's Tree Frog (Agalychnis moreletii), and more importantly, she's looking at you. 🐸 They're also known as "Black-eyed Tree Frogs", for obvious reasons. Those big eyes collect light without acting like reflectors, allowing them to hunt at night.

Ludwig von Bertalanffy—the architect of “General System Theory”—was born OTD in 1901. Mechanism “provides us with no grasp of … organic 'wholeness,’ … of organic 'teleology,’ or of the historical character of organisms.…” 🌱🐋🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci #evolbio #STS 🧪

A quick summary for busy people: We propose a mathematical framework for learning representations by extracting the algebra of transformations of worlds from the agent's perspective. 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

At the museum, quotes reminded us that liberty and freedom need work, without which they tarnish and fade away. Felt That

Visited Liberty Island today, sad how the values she embodies are so imperiled

so this h1b thing is not even an executive order but a presidential proclamation, and should "not have the force and effect of law" (as per the library of Congress) but that won't make any difference because we seem to be completely resigned to be living in a dictatorship, yes?

Carl Sagan wrote this in 1995 and I think about it a lot.

The couple who bought a Wicklow golf course and turned it into a native woodland

Also to clarify, the cost is $100K per year of the visa, so it is actually $300K for a 3-year visa. As postdocs cost about $100K/year, this fee doubles the cost of postdocs on H1-B visas.

this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

I created a starter pack for #PhilosophyOfAI and #DataEthics here: go.bsky.app/72k3w4X #EthicsOfAI

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

The antivax destruction coming from RFK Jr is unspeakably bad. Many many people will die. Babies will be harmed for life. Unspeakably. Bad. Impeach RFK before it’s too late, Congress.

Rewriting the Grand Plan of Clinical Neuroscience A Review of “Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That” by Nicole C. Rust ( @nicolecrust.bsky.social ) www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/rewriting-...

The Executive Order does not appear to exempt professors (who are exempt from various other working visa conditions) from the 100,000 USD fee. That means that no university will hire foreign professors. American academia is toasted.

this exists it is called thinking

alert to all H1B holders, please share: Trump just banned H-1B employees from reentering US unless employer pays $100,000 "fee". Proclamation applies to both new H-1B entrants and current H-1B employees who are abroad. set to take effect tmrw sun sept 21. please return if you can. i am so sorry. 😢

The mad king is losing it. This will destroy higher ed, tech, and the medical profession. Xenophobia has no bounds in this administration. I’m a former h1b holder

162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health. www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky